I would gladly join any other robed technophobes looking to stand up against AI in the humanities

“how people should protest the right way” is a parlor game played by people whose experience of protest is watching the news on tv

One striking quotation from the article shared here about how anti trans rhetoric is never in good faith "Because the goal was never to improve care or protect children — it was to eliminate transgender people from public life entirely."

Read about some amazing pei trans history here!

What nonsense is this? An equality and human rights commissioner telling a group of people that they must accept fewer rights? This commission is not fit for purpose. ##TransRightsAreHumanRights

Amazing panel on trans histories at CHA this year. Great work from @jameyj.bsky.social, Renée Szematowicz, Elio Colavito, and @ainopihlak.bsky.social !

Read our next post in the Queering Atlantic Canada series! Meredith J. Batt explores the history of St. John’s The Lighthouse. Make sure to check out the rest of the series, edited by Jess Wilton @oncewilting.bsky.social

Do you know anybody working as a scholar, researcher, archivist, activist, or artist who might want to write about Atlantic Canada queer history? If so, send them my way! #NS #PEI #NL #NB #queerhistory #canadaqueerhistory #AtlanticCanada

Next article of the series out now! This convo with Sarah was so fun and I can't wait to see what they'll do next Read about some cool Atlantic Canada queer history here and in the previous posts

I am team “AI should not be used in any level of education” and this thread is super important.

some gorgeous queer Black poetry to read for the last day of Black History Month and beyond <3 All titles are (as always!) available ✨for free✨in @libby.app with a QLL membership! Don’t have one? Sign up at queerliberationlibrary.org/members 💞

If you missed the CBC interview earlier you can hear it here! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Someone asked me how it's possible to study queer history because "isn't it mostly based on rumours?" Boy did I have some rough news to break about studying history in general

Meredith J Batt and I will be on CBC Halifax at 440 today! Tune in to hear more about the Queering Atlantic Canada series

The reason the archives are so cold isn't to preserve the records. It's actually because if historians were allowed to be warm while researching they would never leave and their articles would never be finished. (Jokes, because obviously we historians aren't finishing their articles anyway)

Getting nervous as heck about this talk 😬 but still looking forward to giving it! 😃 You can sign up to watch it online at the link below ⬇️ #cdnhist #envhist #envhum #histstm

Not sure how to contact your MLA? Find your representative here and then email or call nslegislature.ca/members/prof... #nspoli

Houston's government in NS is trying to pass a bill that will seriously threaten our democracy and move us closer to authoritarianism. If you're terrified at what's happening in the US, this is the time to act. Fascism doesn't happen overnight, it's a slow erosion. Contact your MLA.

Watching my SO's soccer game and she just made the most killer save. All the other soccer husbands watching their wives are jealous 😌

It would be a shame to encourage folks to use banned book lists to do strange things like -check them out regularly at the library -request the library order them if they don’t have them -buy them -start or support banned book clubs -organize a banned book kids story time A real shame

I don’t mean to say that historical fiction can’t be criticized in terms of its presentation of history. But I think it’s a serious problem that far more public ink goes to critiquing novelists’ source work or directors’ casting decisions than the gutting of libraries, archives and history programs.

Full stop.

Second post of the series!

The fact is, Canada is deeply implicated in the same kind of fascist forces we see at play in the U.S. In fact, many of the alt-right thought leaders there are Canadians! So if you want to fight this you MUST root it out at home first, and nationalism isn't know for that kind of nuance. Do better.

12 There is no neutrality. Non-commitment is a betrayal of the responsibility we owe our fellow humans and the living world. Study history. Form discussion groups. Organise. Slava Ukraini! Black Lives Matter. Women, Life, Freedom! Free Palestine! Vive le Canada !

hope to see you on the 25th!

i don’t trust people who aren’t overly caffeinated and don’t use “fuck” as a sentence enhancer.

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

Still looking for contributors for this series! Reach out if you (or anyone you know) might want to write on the heritage, histories, and/or archives of queer Atlantic Canada

In today's post, @oncewilting.bsky.social introduces the series, Queering Atlantic Canada, she will edit this year.

Since the National Park Service is trying to erase the singular role that trans people played in starting Stonewall, here’s a piece I wrote about the devastating, four-decade-long consequences of erasing trans women in the 1970s from the queer rights movement. www.thenation.com/article/arch...

happy valentine's day! may your day be filled with sweet things and plenty of romance tropes <3

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

On 14 February 1979, officers of Pink Triangle Press received the first of three acquittals on obscenity charges. That summer, on my initiative, the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Rights Coalition declared the date an annual lesbian and gay holiday, Pink Triangle Day. www.robinmetcalfe.ca/pink-triangl...

Thanks so much to @activehist.bsky.social for the opportunity to guest edit this new series on queer history in Atlantic Canada! Keep an eye out for some amazing stories over the next year. activehistory.ca/blog/2025/02...

Libraries are great for the books, sure, but it's also nice to have a quiet and safe space to sit and think- a place where no one is trying to sell you anything.

In our blog we shared recipes from across the Nova Scotia Museum. Nan's Pound Cake from the Black Loyalist’s Heritage Centre was a favourite. (Spoiler alert - this one's a keeper).

you guys look at what I’m stitching 🍴🍯

How can we trace same-sex relationships in rural archives, when love letters were heavily euphemistic or burned after reading? For LGBTQ+ History Month, Tim Jerrome shares his research into queer rural relationships: from his first find, to the challenges faced. merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

The Making Gay History podcast is in its 14th season: exploring queer lives under National Socialism and in the context of the Holocaust. They use recordings, interviews and consultation from historians. Bookmark it, pals. Remembering our history has urgency. makinggayhistory.org/the-podcast/

Awesome Canadian #queerhistory podcast to check out Created by Tom Hooper, Scott MacDougall, Christine Sismondo, and Brent Bodrug, the series takes an imaginative approach to "the closet" in post-war Toronto mother-goose.simplecast.com

Skated on Lake Banook today with my girlfriend and couldn't stop thinking about this horse race that was held there in 1959 We should step up our ice entertainment. Also look at the cars on the lake!!! Reference: Nova Scotia Information Service Nova Scotia Archives number 12457

Starter pack for Queer & Trans History (modern & contemporary)! This is a very incomplete work in progress - suggested additions welcome :) go.bsky.app/DF3FYCh

Made a queer history and archives starter pack! Let us know if we’re missing folks. It’s hard rebuilding community on a new platform go.bsky.app/HPDLvAs

how is it still january

It's been a year since the woman I thought I'd spend forever with said she could "no longer prioritize me" and then left me to pick up the pieces and sort out our shared life alone while in the worst mental state of my life. but this has given me a new outlook on mental health & community 1/9

We’ve spoken to CJ about his excessive silliness levels multiple times yet here he is again, rolling around, purring, making biscuits in mid-air, just basically being AN UNREPENTANT GOOFBOY.

Breaking: doctors starting to suspect that women's bodies work differently than men's